Sigir ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval Publisher: ACM New York, NY, USA: isbn: : Conference: IRResearch and Development in Information Retrieval: Paper Acceptance Rate 73 of 366 submissions, 20: Overall Acceptance Rate 1,365 of 7,098 submissions,.The ACM, sigir, test of Time Award recognizes conference papers that have had a longlasting influence on information retrieval research.When the award guidelines were created, eligible papers were identified as those that were published in a window of time 10 to 12 years prior to the year of the award.